Facilities that work with radioactive materials require practical solutions for small quantities of isotopes and radioactive waste.

Radioactive material supports many activities that improve lives around the world. Only a limited number of specialized facilities produce these materials, so safe and secure tran ...

A new X-ray imaging technique could transform how hospitals analyze tissue samples, potentially speeding up diagnoses and ...

When a nuclear plant reaches the end of its life or is damaged, it must be decommissioned. This process can take more than 20 ...

An Iranian radiation sterilisation plant has been "severely damaged" in a US-Israeli attack. Such facilities use gamma rays - typically from a cobalt-60 source - to sterilise medical devices, ...

Scientists have developed a flexible shield that blocks up to 175% more gamma radiation, offering lightweight, advanced protection ...

Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It ...

Astronomers have used the XRISM spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a century-old ...

A naked-eye star’s 50-year mystery is solved—its bizarre X-rays come from a hidden, feeding white dwarf.

A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, ...

A team at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new microscopy technique that can ...

Michigan State University has opened a $14 million facility to test microelectronics against cosmic rays. The facility simulates decades of cosmic ray exposure in minutes to test chips for space, ...